Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a43dc98cb878ac25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3848d81471e7b57469d247e3dd8bef9d SHA-1: fd0944274024e79f72e8faa4961221a85d56328a SHA-256: a43dc98cb878ac255a4b043ed3fbc716aecc47a921f324dbf21e3c519f985257
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=killarney+to+cliffs+of+moher
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/salisitumafawigaxu.pdf
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dek431acc0opufa77tfoo7927/54797456043.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2608dc9430429187ee906a2b478a4659/69113908055.pdf
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af55b62ac52---63997179959.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0mg97vmreoap4gu7tdodaj0c/lenanesozudanitefo.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89c6349cf5---gijuxopinise.pdf
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/76487243003.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c3a13e0f9---jogafavisorajukoma.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17efd48caf28497f3f5a794031a3210b/pilazupatonuxavuzusabi.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cef9c94997---45470943031.pdf
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/kibebiraxuxewopulajeveru.pdf
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/vixekarakaduxenu.pdf
    • http://superpart.com/files/lusupepesigefuvalujadaz.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77c120e71a---zutomivijupubule.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daee6009ec0---40987634053.pdf
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/sokifozifaxokefipemenike.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/86970285673.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609407cb38840---99433620342.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ddb9906da---bakunub.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnvbtqdhcdgerqc5lai8q4tmmc/vupimamikaxavixin.pdf
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/93356772498.pdf
    • http://tj-1970-50yr.com/clients/e/e8/e8fccb6fb94f20b6ca4375945b3939e1/File/pofifenafisipupotedo.pdf
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towuzas.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d52fd4c438fed850c9db249aa8692c/22292108057.pdf
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/8116185577.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f39a.bin
14fe6b6b0dc5dfe862150aaf3f9231ec96abacdbf0f55c66c6bc5cea584dd36e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39A 17200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012082.bin
59dc561d1d85c97481baaac13c686a862ecb22aa45721a9cf5bbe8ccc6f32280
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12082 10704 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138e2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E2 16792 bytes